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Vesicocutaneous fistula (VCF) secondary to radiation therapy is a rare event. There are difficulties in establishing the early diagnosis and choosing the proper management option. We present a very unusual...
In spite of multidisciplinary treatment, about 70% of lymph node (LN) positive bladder cancer reported to be recurred within 5-year after radical cystectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy although considerable number of...
The standard management for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) involves radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection. Although this treatment may be curative, a large proportion of patients...
Prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers are the three most prevalent urologic cancers in the Korean population. Throughout the last decade, there has been an upsurge in the incidence and prevalence...
Active surveillance (AS) is an alternative to initial radical treatment for men with low-risk localized prostate cancer (PCa). Current AS criteria for selection and follow-up incorrectly exclude some patients eligible...
PURPOSE: Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are highly expressed during stress responses and cellular adaptation to environmental changes. One such protein is HSP27, a 27kDa protein that prevents cell death induced...
PURPOSE: To investigate whether secretion of human beta-defensin 3 (HBD-3) is induced by bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and to determine whether HBD-3 affects BCG internalization in bladder cancer cells.
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PURPOSE: Climacturia is involuntary loss of urine during orgasm. The mechanism of climacturia in men who undergo radical prostatectomy (RP) is not fully understood, while deficiency in bladder neck coaptation...